Sunday, June 8, 2008

Increasing meat shelf life with Vitamin E

I heard on 'Farming Today, This Week' on Saturday's radio 4 that one of the ways of ensuring there's enough food for everyone is to feed Vitamin E to animals before they are sent to slaughter which increases the shelf life of the meat.

Bizarre...

How I saved my iPod from the click of death

My HP Apple (4th generation?) 20Gb iPod has survived a few 'deaths' where ultimately the iPod screen refers you to the technical section of Apple's website with a sad face.

Searching on Google for further tips seems to only regurgitate what Apple already says.
Although useful for some of the deaths my iPod has suffered, I really thought that after two and a half years this was it for my iPod. I simply couldn't get it to reset or work despite trying the various resets options on numerous occasions.

All it did was boot up and the whirr and click, whirr and click.

I thought I would have one final look online before I ebayed my iPod as a dead spare and came across a post that advocates 'dropping' your iPod. With nothing to lose I 'dropped' my iPod from table head onto my carpeted floor.

I cannot tell you the delight to find that it WORKED! No kidding. That's why I started this blog to write this tip and share my delight. I can't say it will work for you but if all else has failed then why not? You've nothing really to lose after you've tried everything else.

http://www.macgeekery.com/hacks/hardware/fix_your_dead_ipod_for_free